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It is interesting to study the stress concentration between two adjacent stiff inclusions in composite materials, which can be modeled by the Lam\'e system with partially infinite coefficients. To overcome the difficulty from the lack of…
In composite material, the stress may be arbitrarily large in the narrow region between two close-to-touching hard inclusions. The stress is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system of linear elasticity. The aim of…
This paper is concerned with the stress concentration phenomenon in elastic composite materials when the inclusions are very closely spaced. We investigate the gradient blow-up estimates for the Lam\'{e} system of linear elasticity with…
In high-contrast elastic composites, it is vitally important to investigate the stress concentration from an engineering point of view. The purpose of this paper is to show that the blowup rate of the stress depends not only on the shape of…
In the region between two closely located stiff inclusions, the stress, which is the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system with partially infinite coefficients, may become arbitrarily large as the distance between interfacial…
We consider the Lam\'{e} system arising from high-contrast composite materials whose inclusions (fibers) are nearly touching the matrix boundary. The stress, which is the gradient of the solution, always concentrates highly in the narrow…
In high-contrast composites, if an inclusion is in close proximity to the matrix boundary, then the stress, which is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} systems of linear elasticity, may exhibits the singularities with…
For two neighbouring stiff inclusions, the stress, which is the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} system of linear elasticity, may exhibit singular behavior as the distance between these two inclusions becomes arbitrarily small. In…
In the region between close-to-touching hard inclusions, the stress may be arbitrarily large as the inclusions get closer. The stress is represented by the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'e system of linear elasticity. We consider the…
We investigate the possibility to determine the divergence-free displacement $\mathbf{u}$ \emph{independently} from the pressure reaction $p$ for a class of boundary value problems in incompressible linear elasticity. If not possible, we…
A high-contrast two-phase nonlinear composite material with adjacent inclusions of $m$-convex shapes is considered for $m>2$. The mathematical formulation consists of the insulated conductivity problem with $p$-Laplace operator in…
Achieving strongly symmetric stress approximations for linear elasticity problems in high-contrast media poses a significant computational challenge. Conventional methods often struggle with prohibitively high computational costs due to…
In high-contrast composite materials, the electric field concentration is a common phenomenon when two inclusions are close to touch. It is important from an engineering point of view to study the dependence of the electric field on the…
The response to a localized force provides a sensitive test for different models of stress transmission in granular solids. The elasto-plastic models traditionally used by engineers have been challenged by theoretical and experimental…
Elastomers are viscoelastic materials and their properties significantly depend on the loading rate. The actual stress experienced by these materials is the sum of equilibrium and dissipative (inelastic) terms. At very low loading rates we…
The paper addresses the problem of a a semi-infinite plane crack along the interface between two 3D isotropic half-spaces. Two methods of solution have been considered in the past: Lazarus and Leblond (1998) applied the "special" method by…
In the perfect conductivity problem of composite material, the electric field concentrates in a narrow region in between two inclusions and always becomes arbitrarily large when the distance between inclusions tends to zero. To characterize…
We study the stress concentration, which is the gradient of the solution, when two smooth inclusions are closely located in a possibly anisotropic medium. The governing equation may be degenerate of $p-$Laplace type, with $1<p \leq N$. We…
In this paper, we establish the asymptotic expressions for the gradient of a solution to the Lam\'{e} systems with partially infinity coefficients as two rigid $C^{1,\gamma}$-inclusions are very close but not touching. The novelty of these…
This paper focuses on the homogenization of high-contrast dielectric elastomer composites, materials that deform in response to electrical stimulation. The considered heterogeneous material consisting of an ambient material with inserted…